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Well, I am busily preparing to depart for GSA so this will be brief. The notion that most or all of geobiology proceeds in an ahistorical fashion is completely incorrect. Additionally, the notion that most systems and processes came together in the Archaean or Proterozoic in so final and static a fashion as to deserve an ahistorical approach, and that geobiologists even begin to believe or accept this, is also incorrect. There is a large and growing literature out there involving the study of the interface of geological and biological processes and phenomena, and it involves paleontologists (of all sorts), mineralogists, geochemists (of all sorts), planetary geologists, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, systematists, ecologists, and on and on. I think that the subject matter that they have been addressing themselves to would be an excellent starting point for an understanding of exactly what this multidisciplinary field is all about. Peter -- Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine, Chair, Asst. Curator Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco CA 94118-4599 Phone: (415) 750-7085 FAX: (415) 750-7090 WWW: http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/roopnarine/peter.htm "Description must be nonlinear, and prediction must be linear." Alan M. Turing
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